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Report: Conflict Has 114 Million People Displaced

The NonProfit Times

Two more countries – Bangladesh and Venezuela – were downgraded to the worst civic space category this past December. Long-established tenets of international human rights and humanitarian laws are being flouted. Some 118 countries now have serious civic space restrictions and only 2.1%

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Senators Urged To Protect NGOs Via Systems, Staffing, Sanctions

The NonProfit Times

International nonprofits and other non-government organizations (NGOs) need American support to function, or even exist, a trio of witnesses told U.S. In the past five years, 72 countries have introduced 270 measures restricting civil society,” Douglas Rutzen, president and CEO of the International Center for Nonprofit Law testified. β€œIn

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Kevin Danaher of Global Exchange Talks about the Global Citizen Center

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They build a building, and then they just fill it up, and there's an architecture firm, and a law firm, and whatever. So we figured that if we did a weekend event, The Green Festival, that would get us to know this green economy movement, build some credibility.

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